At the time of her suicide in 1971, the photographer Diane Arbus was working on a very personal set of pictures, most of which have never before been published in this country. Tim Hilton introduces them

INJUDICIOUS flesh-baring is a feature of the British summer; last week, when temperatures hit the nineties, was no exception. Thongs, more usually seen adorning bronzed Brazilian beach bunnies, were sighted on British bottoms.